Who Are WE? We're PR3!

-They’re asking you a question

-Oh, right… Uhm, do you remember what they asked?

-You’re hopeless.

-I know… So are you going to tell me?

-They want you to reveal something about yourself.

-Like what?

-How am I supposed to know, make something up.

-You know you’re a lot of help.

-I try.

“Hello. My name is Matt Scott. “

–That was very revealing.

-Shut up, I’m trying.

-Not succeeding…

“I grew up in a small town, the kind of town where everybody knew your secrets, and gossip was the major form of entertainment.”

–That’s getting there. Talk about yourself though not the town. You’ll put them to sleep

-You know you’re awfully critical for someone that isn’t helping.

-….

“Seeing how everybody knew everybody, the entire town had opinions on each and every resident, myself included. Somehow everybody starting thinking that I am destined for great things, and started dreaming things for me that I myself never dared of dreaming for myself. If you ask the people from my village (because we don’t have enough people to actually be classified as a town) they would tell you that I have the ability to cure cancer, end world hunger, and establish world peace if only I had the mind for it. You can imagine the affect this has had on me. Most people have just the expectations of their parents and close family members or friends resting on their shoulders, I have an entire village. Like Atlas, I fear I will buckle under the enormous weight, letting a village’s worth of expectancy crumble. To disappoint those who lost their own dreams, and found them again in me was to accept the fact that dreams can never come true, and that isn’t a possibility.”

-Wow, that’s more like it.

-Thanks

“There’s more to me than just expectations though. I mean, in the end I’m just another stupid human.”

–Well at least you got one thing right.

-No one is asking you.

“But the end doesn’t matter. It’s what you do with the time you have that counts, and I plan on making every second count. I may have started off as a one man wolf pack, but I plan on ending as part of something bigger.”

-Did you really just make a “Hangover” reference?

-Yes, yes I did.

-Nice.

“The thing that I believe makes me different from most people is the manner in which I think.”

-If people knew how you thought they’d think you’re crazy.

-Well thank God they can’t hear this conversation

“I’ve found that the great majority of people think along the same lines. That is, they see a problem, and they look for the obvious answer. I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with this, in fact I sometimes feel as if it’s the better way to think. I have the phenomenal ability to overcomplicate everything. But occasionally this helps me arrive at a better solution in the end, even though it’s a very unclear route how I arrived there.”

-You’re losing them again, stop bragging.

-I’m not bragging, it’s an observation.

“What is most important to me though are my values. If I didn’t have those I’d be nobody. It these little things that make up who and what I am. They are the pieces that make up the puzzle of Matt Scott. I won’t go into details, because we’ll be here all day. But here are a few, take from them what you want: You can’t let other people tell you who to be, live for yourself so that in the end the only person responsible for your mistakes is you. Don’t let people get you down, if you let the bad make an impact, you won’t notice the good. And have fun, you only live once, so don’t let embarrassment or fear stand in the way of what you want to do.”

-Do you think that’s revealing enough for them?

-I think that’ll do. Bravo.

My dad has been a role model throughout my life. However, there are times, when I just can’t stand his lecture, especially during dinner time. I mean, come on, I’m trying to enjoy my meal here. He always repeats the same stuff every time, over and over. I decided to just ignore him, but In order to prevent him from become upset; I just nod my head and pretend that I’m listening. But I can tell, by the look of his face, he is so not buying it. Sometime, I just wish the phone would ring or just anything, as long as it would stop him from yapping at me. I’m just going nod that head of mines and finish my dinner as quick as possible so I can return to my room and be free and peaceful.

Here I am, in college. It seems like it should be some life changing event, and in some ways it is but yet I’m still myself. I am a hardworking and a success driven girl and I will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done no matter what. I have a really strong pride in my ability to multi task: my school, work, family, friends; I like the adrenaline that I get from being on a tight schedule, deadlines work for me because they give me structure. Excuses don’t fly with me, if I need to get something done; it will get done no matter if I’m sick, or if there’s a hurricane outside. I have this sick need to succeed in the things I do. My education and my family are the most important things in my life. These two building blocks shape and guide my progression. There’s a saying that you have to surround yourself with positive people, but believe me, my family is not positive. There isn’t a quiet moment in my house, and that works for me. My friends are no different, they are all loud and obnoxious but I love them and they wouldn’t be my friends if I didn’t. I said that I was driven by the need to succeed, but I’m not afraid of being unsuccessful, I’m afraid of letting down the people closest to me such as my family. Their support and their confidence in me scare me a little because if I let them down that wouldn’t work. Their support in my goals and aspirations empowers me. It gives me a feeling of achievement. I also get that feeling when I actually accomplish something, whether it is a good grade, or doing something good at work or beating my brother at basketball. Basketball and SING used to be an important part of my life, my social life revolved around my teams and that’s the core of my friend base from High school. But I see them less and less as we grow more assimilated into our own college experiences and I fear that I will lose those friendships which took years to form and held up through so much. College is a whole new thing for me, and it’s a little difficult that I don’t always know where I am going or where I am suppose to go. I’m taking it slower and I think that’s okay. When I’m comfortable enough with the technical parts of college, like classes, I will get deeper into the college social life. I’m excited for it and to really continue to develop myself and meet new people and find new interests. I think that all of those opportunities are open and that’s a great feeling to have.  Time is my biggest problem, there just isn’t enough of it to go around and I don’t think I can make more time, but I can figure out ways to use it well. What needs to stay in there is time for fun, time to do things that I actually like doing: going to the gym or watching a movie. I don’t want to lose myself, I want to live my life and I want to succeed in doing it. It’s a tall order, and I might fail at it, but I will keep trying and hoping that the next experience will be better. I live my life by the notion that “what goes around, comes around”, I do good things to people and I hope that good things will happen to me. A pet peeve is my inability to control things like peoples actions. All I can do is play my part and hope that everything else will fall into place. For that reason I am super crazy about the things that I can control, if it will give a better chance than I’ll take it. I don’t know what sense I made just now, and I cannot try to summarize this train of thought. But that’s me and that’s the only person I can be- “believe in yourself and all that you are.
know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”



I’m a naturally shy and quiet individual.  The thing I like most about myself is that I’m an honest, genuine person and if I care about you, it won’t be hard to figure out, the same goes for if I don’t particularly like you.  Another thing I like is that I’ll always be myself and that I won’t change for the approval of anyone.  One of my qualities that I’m not all that fond of is my laziness; it tends to prevent me from doing as well as I could.  Procrastination has never helped me and though it has developed into a habit, I know I can change it.  Another bad habit I have is that in order for me to do well, I usually have to do bad first before I have a motive to do well.

The most important things in my life are family and friends because I know I can always rely on them or confide in them whenever I have a problem.  Besides my family and friends, music and sports, in particular basketball has a big impact on who I am.  I watch games whenever they’re on and play in the park when I have time.  Music is sort of my escape from everything because it helps me relax and focus.

What I’m afraid of most is losing the things I care about most because when you really care about something, you develop an attachment that is nearly impossible to let go.  To me, losing something I care about is like losing apart of yourself, so that is why my personal motto is to “Cherish the moments that make you happy.” My mentality is that if there’s no happiness in life what else is there to live for.  Without happiness all that’s left is pain, regret, and sorrow.